Imperial German Army 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of BattleHelion & Company Limited, 2006 - 414 pages A detailed account of the composition, structure and organization of the First World War German Army has long been needed by English-language readers - this work will fill the gap admirably. In more than 300 pages, the authors examine all aspects of the army. A detailed analytical text is followed by an extensive compendium of order-of-battle data. |
Contents
Publishers note | 9 |
B Command Authorities from Army High Command | 76 |
Munitions Columns and Trains | 77 |
Infantry Divisions with Jäger Reserve Landwehr Ersatz and Naval | 95 |
Cavalry Divisions | 104 |
B Machine Gun Formations | 121 |
Cavalry | 127 |
The Troops | 134 |
J Air Forces | 278 |
The Intendance of the Air Forces | 284 |
N Train | 291 |
The Field Army 17 August 1914 | 301 |
18th Army 21 March 1918 | 331 |
216 | 332 |
217 | 338 |
List of Brigade Staffs Artillery and Pioneer Generals | 340 |
The Artillery Survey Service | 150 |
F Air Forces | 174 |
G Survey and Topographical Service | 195 |
First reorganisation under the Hindenburg Army Command | 202 |
K Motorised Vehicle Troops | 215 |
The Medical Service in the Field | 226 |
A Lines of Communication Inspectorates | 237 |
The Supply Service | 244 |
B The War Department of the War Ministry the War Department | 258 |
G Cavalry | 270 |
iv | 358 |
List of Mobile Units | 364 |
Field Artillery | 370 |
220 | 374 |
f Pioneers and variant units | 376 |
255 | 382 |
AntiAircraft units | 383 |
Commanders and their General Staff Chiefs | 389 |
Abbreviations and glossary | 401 |
Bibliography | 413 |
Common terms and phrases
12 Batts 1st Bavarian 29th Infantry Division 33rd Infantry Division aircraft Airship Arko Army Corps Army Detachment Army Group Artillery Brigade Field Aviation batteries Bavarian Reserve Brigade Field Artillery Cavalry Brigade Cavalry Division Chief Columns and Train companies Corps Troops depot dissolved Division 12 Btns Divisional Pontoon Train Divs Dragoon Rgt equipment Ersatz battalions Ersatz Division Ersatz sections Field Army Field Artillery Brigade Field Artillery Rgts Field Howitzers Flak Foot Art Foot Artillery Rgt formations fortress Generalfeldmarschall Guard Reserve Idflieg II Army Corps Infantry Brigade Inf Infantry Brigade Res Infantry Division 12 Insp Inspectorate January Landsturm Landwehr Division Landwehr Inf Landwehr Sqdn Lines of Communication machine gun MGKs Military Minenwerfer Ministry Motorised Vehicle Column Munition Columns Pioneer Btn Regt renamed Reserve Corps Reserve Division Reserve Field Artillery Reserve Infantry Brigade September Signals Staff Officer Supreme Army Command Telephone trench warfare Uhlan Uhlan Rgt units War Ministry